Zimbabwe Leaders Hope to Unify Gov’t
Zimbabwe leaders will meet Tuesday in hopes of finalizing a power-sharing deal that has been in the works since September, reports CNN. After months of talks, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change, agreed to join a unity government with longtime leader Robert Mugabe’s party ZANU-Pf Friday. In the coalition government, Mugabe will retain his title and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will serve as prime minister. “It remains our fervent hope that the outstanding issues are successfully resolved followed by debate, passing and enactment” of an amendment allowing the unity government to be formed. The amendment is needed for Tsvangirai to be sworn in next week. Some key points of contention, though, are fair division of important cabinet posts, the release of party members currently detained and the constitutional amendment.  The country has seen its share of difficulties during the political violence and uncertainty that plagued 2008. The out-of-control inflation rate has caused the nation to ditch its own currency, and a cholera epidemic has claimed the lives of thousands of people.
 

No Drugs Were on Obama’s Half Bro
Police dropped weed charges against Obama’s half brother.
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The half-brother of President Barack Obama has been arrested for carrying marijuana, Kenyan officials say. George Obama, 24, who shares a dad with the first Black President, was reportedly caught by police today. He denies the charges. The Obama siblings have only met about twice, apparently during Barack Obama’s visits to the Kenyan village where his father lived. The senior Barack Obama died in a car accident. Kenya ranks among nations outside the U.S. with the largest numbers of Obama supporters. The Obama hometown, where the president’s grandmother has a house that has become a tourist site, celebrated the Jan. 20 inauguration with a village feast. A school there bears the president’s name, and the date Obama took office has been proposed as a national holiday.  The president hadn’t commented on his brother’s arrest Saturday morning. Several other president brothers have had run-ins with the law: Billy Carter, Neil Bush, Roger Clinton and Donald Nixon.

Should President Obama feel compelled to comment to the public about his brother’s arrest?